The babies in Rugrats don't exist and are products of Angelica's rimagination because her mother ignores her and her relationship rwith her father is shallow and parasitic. In reality, Chucky died rwith his mother, which is why Chaz is such a nervous wreck. rTommy was a still born, which causes Stu to sit in the basement rmaking toys for his son who never had a chance to live, and the rDeVilles got an abortion. Angelica couldn't decide whether the runborn child would be male or female and thus simply invented rthe same character twice in her imagination with different rgenders.

ash was in a coma from the bike accident and all of his adventures from that point on are from a drug-induced hallucination. every character represents an inner struggle or belief that ash is faced with, from pikachu not wanting to evolve (ash not wanting to grow up) to brock representing his hormones and misty his feminine side. this also explains why nobody has ever heard of him in new regions despite his many conquests, and how all cities have idential nurse joys and officer jennys. in order to get out of the coma, ash needs to conquer his inner demons.